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# The Science of the Shulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.47

The Science of the Śulba: A Study in Early Hindu Geometry c14.47

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¹ T. L. Heath, \*The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements\*, in 3 volumes, Cambridge, 1908, Vol. I, p. 352. It may be noted that this proof of the particular case of the theorem of the square of the diagonal was adduced with the figure, as that of its general case, by Al-khowârizmî (c. 825). (F. Rosen, \*The Algebra of Mohammed Ben Musa\*, London, 1831, pp. 74f.)

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